retractar

Learned borrowing from Latin retractō (“to undertake again”).

retractar (first-person singular present retracto, first-person singular preterite retractí, past participle retractat)

1. (transitive) to retract
2. (pronominal) to recant, to repudiate
   • 1974, Serra d'Or, number 178:

     Per aquesta raó us prego, en nom d'aquesta Congregació, que feu veure al professor Pfürtner que les seves idees són inacceptables, i que l'obligueu a retractar-se'n públicament.

     For this reason I beg you, in the name of the Congregation, to make Professor Pfürtner see that his ideas are unacceptable and to oblige him to recant them publicly.

• retreure

• “retractar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

retractar (first-person singular present retracto, first-person singular preterite retractei, past participle retractado)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of retratar. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

Borrowed from Late Latin retractāre.

• IPA^(key): /retɾaɡˈtaɾ/ [re.t̪ɾaɣ̞ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧trac‧tar

retractar (first-person singular present retracto, first-person singular preterite retracté, past participle retractado)

1. to retract, to take back (one's words)
2. (reflexive) to retract, to recant, to take back (one's words)

• “retractar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024